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S&P Evaluation of Enterprise Risk Management Practices is Topic of Feb. 27 ERM Roundtable

The Feb. 27 ERM Roundtable will be held at The Westin Charlotte, 601 S. College Street in Charlotte, N.C. The event begins with registration and continental breakfast from 7:30 a.m. to 8:00 a.m., followed by Dreyer’s presentation and a question-answer session from 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. There is a $55 charge to attend. Registration and other details are available at the ERM Website or by calling 919.513.0901.

About the speaker

Steve Dreyer is U.S. practice leader for Utilities & Infrastructure Ratings at Standard & Poor’s. He oversees a group of 40 analysts providing credit ratings and research on investor-owned electric, gas, and water utilities, independent power producers, gas pipelines, project finance, and public-private infrastructure partnerships. He also leads S&P’s initiative to apply enterprise risk management to the credit analysis for corporate ratings globally.

From 2000 to 2006, Dreyer was North American practice leader for Insurance Ratings. He joined Standard & Poor’s in 1990 with its acquisition of ratings firm Insurance Solvency International, Ltd., whose U.S. subsidiary he managed. Previously, he was responsible for insurance industry forecasting at Chase Econometrics.
Dreyer earned a B.A. in statistics from the University of Delaware and did graduate work at Drexel University. He completed executive development programs at the University of Virginia in 1996, Columbia University in 2005 and INSEAD in 2007.

He was named to Insurance Newscast’s “List of 100 Most Powerful People in Insurance in North America” from 2002 to 2006. In 2003, he contributed to the Greater New York Safety Council’s “Roundtables on Sector Preparedness,” reporting to the 9-11 Commission. Also, he is a director of the Insurance Marketplace Standards Association, which sets ethical standards in the sale of life insurance and annuities.

About this program

The Enterprise Risk Management Initiative at North Carolina State University College of Management supports and conducts research and provides outreach and educational programs designed to meet business professionals’ growing need for knowledge about effective enterprise risk management systems and processes.